Water-cooling attachment for refrigerators



(No Model J. E. GUENTHER.

WATER 000mm ATTACHMENT FOR REFRIGERATORS.

. No. 314,175, Patented Mar. 1'7, 1885.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFIC JOHN EDWARD GUENTHER, OF OWENSBOROUGH, KENTUCKY.

WATER-COOLING ATTACHMENT FOR REFRIGERATORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,175, dated March 17, 1885.

(No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN EDWARD GUEN- 'IHER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Owensborough, in the county of Daviess and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water- Cooling Attachments for Refrigerators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved water-cooling attachment for refrigerators. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view of a refrigerator provided with my attachment; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line w 00, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondingparts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to that class of water cooling devices for refrigerators in which the water is drawn from a closed vessel upon which the ice rests, and which is supplied with water as it is drawn off from a reservoir located above it; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device, which is removable, andmay be inserted into a refrigerator of any con- 'struction, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the refrigerator, which may be of any desired construction, and B is the icechamber, which communicates with the provision chamber D through passages O 0, through which the cold air may pass into the said chamber.

A drip-tube, E, extends downward from the bottom of the icechamber, carrying off the water from the ice as it melts.

The attachment, which is shown at F, consists of the reservoir G, of suitable dimensions, and either open at the top or provided with a suitable cover, and of the flat closed tank or chamberI. This tank is secured below and to one side of the reservoir by means of a bracket, H, at one end, and an elbow or bent pipe, L, at the other end, one of its upper side edges facing the lower side edge of,

a faucet, K, fits, which faucet may be inserted through the side of the refrigerator-casing.

The tank is provided with Ia vent-pipe, M, extending upward to the height of the highest water-level in the reservoir, serving to allow the air contained in the tank to escape when the tank and reservoir are filled, inasmuch as the air contained in the fiat tank would offer considerable resistance to the water, the only escape for the air being through the narrow elbow or bent pipe through which the water has to pass. i

It will be seen that the ice resting upon the top of the flat tank will effectually cool the water contained in the said tank, and that as the water is drawn off from the tank through .the faucet the water from the reservoir will frigerator.

It will furthermore be seen that the attachment may be inserted into a refrigerator of any construction, all the work necessary being the boring of a perforation through the side of the refrigerator casing for the passage of the shank of the faucet.

I am aware that it is not new to have watercooling devices in refrigerators consisting of a tank which is directly exposed to contact with the ice, and a reservoir communicating with the tank, andI do not wish to claim such construction, broadly; but

1. A water-cooling attachment for refrigerators, consisting of a reservoir, a fiat closed box or tank attached below and to one side of the reservoir, communicating with the same by means of an elbow or bent pipe having an upright vent pipe and provided with a threaded outlet-aperture, and a faucet having a threaded shank fitting in the said aperture and adapted to beinserted through the side of the refrigerator-casing, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. The combination, with a refrigerator of the usual construction, of a water-cooling at- In testimony thatI claim the foregoing asmy tachment consisting of a reservoir and a flat own I have hereunto affixed my signature in box or tank communicating with the reservoir presence of two witnesses. by means of a bent pipe and secured below and to one side of the said reservoir, provided with 3 JOHN EDXVARD GUENTHER. an upright vent pipe and with a removable faucet adapted to be inserted through the side Witnesses:

of the refrigerator-casing into the end of the J. O. HARRIS,

tank, as'and for the purpose shown and set K. Y.'BERKsHIRE.

1o forth. 

